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Glistening with oils showing heavy tooth vein and seam it has a rough texture and feels like rough shark skin or extra fine sandpaper.

At 6 x 52 it’s rolled in the Toro format with a wide open foot and a rounded cap.

One band sits on the cigar, essentially it looks identical to the image of none other than Haile Selassie, 225th King of Abyssinia, whose lineage traces directly to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

The reference to “Tabernacle” is the container for the Ark of the Covenant.

The difference being the color of red with gold accents and this time the King has his face turned almost staring at you.

I was given one of these at the Foundation Cigar Co. booth at the 2018 trade show in Las Vegas and for lack of a better term it was extremely green!

Even Nicholas Melillo commented that they needed additional aging time to mellow out.

All good things come to those who wait.

The Tabernacle Havana Seed CT No. 142 has been aged to perfection with some upper echelon balance and complexity that we’ve come to expect from the self proclaimed “King of the Broadleaf”.

Worth mentioning is the influence the Havana seed wrapper had on the blend producing distinct flavors of fennel and black poppy seeds keeping the vitola in the MED-PLUS to FULL wheelhouse from first light to final third.